the burlap market
when the social internet sanded the friction off culture, it became a market. on alpha decay, fakeable authenticity, and the only positions that outlast the race to the bottom.
writing
O(1): the asymmetry of knowing
on hashrunner’s O(1). what zero-knowledge proofs do beyond privacy, and how succinctness becomes a medium.
bitcoin may be dumb but it ain’t stupid: part 3
using bitcoin script as a constraint system where confirmed transactions are proofs and the chain is the only dependency.
bitcoin may be dumb but it ain’t stupid: parts 1 and 2
using bitcoin's taproot/tapscript as a parameter enforcement layer for generative art.
chains as cultures
different blockchains produce different cultures, and those cultures shape what art is, not just where it lives.
viewfinder: how a painting becomes
using archival scan data as raw material for a generative system that extrapolates outward from what the paintings conceal, treating the space between image layers as the site of meaning.
notes on traitmaxxing
schizocollage inverts the generative art challenge: where gen art adds chaos on top of simple systems, traitmaxxing has to pull chaos back to leave a recognizable voice.
opinions aren’t strong if they’re loosely held
the accidental art collector
on ordinals
the work worth paying attention to is the work that reckons honestly with what bitcoin actually is rather than what the community wishes it were.
perceive(light)
notes on my curation for the perceive() group show presented at the art blocks house from marfa weekend in november 2022 to may 2023.